# sugarbush
## English
### Etymology

From sugar +‎ bush, in reference to the sugary maple sap.

### Noun

sugarbush (plural sugarbushes)
* (Canada, US) A wooded area with sugar maples or other trees tapped for sugaring.
    Alternative form: sugar bush
    Meronyms: sugarhouse, sugar shack
    Many a small family farm in Vermont had a sugarbush back in the day.
    In some 21st-century sugarbushes, plastic tubing conveys the sap to the sugarhouse.
** 1999, U.S. Congress, NOx State Implementation Plans: hearing before the Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety
    Indeed, acid rain has long been pointed to as the culprit in the diminished productivity and value of northern Maine and Vermont sugarbush (maple syrup producing trees).
** 2001, Howard Paap, Northern Land: Life with the Ojibwe
    The labor I offer in my friends' sugarbush is strenuous, but it brings a welcome fatigue.
** 2006, Elaine Elliot, Maple Syrup
    Then rough lean-tos and later huts were constructed near the sugarbush to offer some protection to the syrup and the boiler.
* Protea repens (common sugarbush)
* Protea spp.

#### Derived terms

* Drakensberg sugarbush (Protea dracomontana)
* Clanwilliam sugarbush (Protea glabra)
* large-nut sugarbush (Protea inopina)
* cloud sugarbush (Protea nubigena)
* dainty sugarbush (Protea parvula)
* sickle-leaf sugarbush (Protea petiolaris)
* krantz sugarbush (Protea rupicola)
* dwarf grassland sugarbush (Protea simplex)
* Chimanimani sugarbush (Protea enervis)
* woodland sugarbush (Protea angolensis)
* saddleback sugarbush (Protea comptonii)
* Barberton sugarbush (Protea curvata)
* Blyde sugarbush (Protea laetans)
* tall woodland sugarbush (Protea madiensis)
* Transvaal sugarbush (Protea rubropilosa)
* rocket sugarbush (Protea rupestris)
* African sugarbush (Protea gaguedi)
* dwarf savanna sugarbush (Protea welwitschii)
* Inyanga sugarbush (Protea asymmetrica)
* Wentzel's sugarbush (Protea wentzeliana)
* frosted sugarbush (Protea pruinosa)
* hoary sugarbush (Protea scabriuscula)
* hart's-tongue-fern sugarbush (Protea scolopendriifolia)
* Burchell's sugarbush (Protea burchellii)
* Bot River sugarbush (Protea compacta)
* broad-leaf sugarbush (Protea eximia)
* long-leaf sugarbush (Protea longifolia)
* limestone sugarbush (Protea obtusifolia)
* bashful sugarbush (Protea pudens)
* silver sugarbush (Protea roupelliae)
* stink-leaf sugarbush (Protea susannae)
* Ladismith sugarbush, Ladysmith sugarbush (Protea aristata)
* lance-leaf sugarbush (Protea lanceolata)
* common sugarbush (Protea repens)
* green sugarbush (Protea coronata)
* red sugarbush (Protea grandiceps)
* saw-edge sugarbush (Protea holosericea)
* gray-leaf sugarbush (Protea laurifolia)
* black-beard sugarbush (Protea lepidocarpodendron)
* strap-leaf sugarbush (Protea lorifolia)
* queen sugarbush (Protea magnifica)
* narrow-leaf sugarbush (Protea neriifolia)
* brown-beard sugarbush (Protea speciosa)
* common shuttlecock sugarbush (Protea aurea)
* Hottentot sugarbush (Protea lacticolor)
* forest sugarbush (Protea mundii)
* water sugarbush (Protea punctata)
* waterlily sugarbush (Protea subvestita)
* common ground sugarbush (Protea acaulos)
* large-leaf sugarbush (Protea convexa)
* smooth-leaf sugarbush (Protea laevis)
* rolled-leaf sugarbush (Protea revoluta)
* Kleinmond sugarbush (Protea angustata)
* leafy sugarbush (Protea foliosa)
* tufted sugarbush (Protea intonsa)
* Swartberg sugarbush (Protea montana)
* tenacious sugarbush (Protea tenax)
* Kouga sugarbush (Protea vogtsiae)
* blackrim sugarbush (Protea acuminata)
* groove-leaf sugarbush (Protea canaliculata)
* mountain-rose sugarbush (Protea nana)
* Ceres sugarbush (Protea pityphylla)
* thistle sugarbush (Protea scolymocephala)
* swan sugarbush (Protea witzenbergiana)
* Marloth's sugarbush (Protea effusa)
* Kamiesberg sugarbush (Protea namaquana)
* arid sugarbush (Protea pendula)
* hidden sugarbush (Protea recondita)
* sulphur sugarbush (Protea sulphurea)
* bishop sugarbush (Protea caespitosa)
* rough-leaf sugarbush (Protea aspera)
* tooth-leaf sugarbush (Protea denticulata)
* thong-leaf sugarbush (Protea lorea)
* Visgat sugarbush (Protea piscina)
* reed-leaf sugarbush (Protea restionifolia)
* sandpaper-leaf sugarbush (Protea scabra)
* channel-leaf sugarbush (Protea scorzonerifolia)

#### Translations
### See also

* maple syrup
* wood lot

### References

* “sugarbush”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.